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= **French Revolution Online Scavenger Hunt: Phase 1** =

**Task/Objective:** You will be completing a scavenger hunt online to determine the causes, major events, and effects of the French Revolution. The French Revolution began in 1789 in Europe and resulted in the end of the monarchy in France. You will have thirty minutes to complete this task, so utilize your time wisely. As you work, think back to our Enlightenment unit and consider how the ideas of the Enlightenment may have contributed to the French Revolution.

**Directions:** Use the websites listed below to answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. You may need to navigate within multiple pages of one website.
 * Britannica’s French Revolution
 * [|History.com’s French Revolution]
 * The French Revolution (Parts I and IV only)
 * The Origins of the French Revolution (Part I only)

**Part I: Causes of and Beginning of Revolution [[image:http://media-3.web.britannica.com/eb-media/78/101978-004-1ED1897A.jpg width="330" height="231" align="right"]]**
1. Who makes up the First Estate, the Second Estate and the Third Estate? 2. Who are the bourgeoisie and what are their complaints? 3. Why are the peasants overburdened before the Revolution? 4. Why did King Louis XVI have to call a meeting of the Estates-General? Why was voting unfair in this system? 5. What are the actions of the Third Estate to counteract the unfair voting method of the Estates-General? 6. Describe the events of the Storming of the Bastille.

Part II: A New Form of Government
7. What was the purpose of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen? 8. A new constitution was developed in September of 1791. How did it structure the French government? 9. Why did France declare war on Austria in 1792? 10. What were the actions of the Jacobins in August 1792? What happened to the Legislative Assembly thereafter? 11. What were the first actions of the National Convention?

**[[image:http://media-3.web.britannica.com/eb-media/74/77074-004-2D7BF5AE.jpg width="217" height="327" align="left"]]Part III: Radicalism Emerges**
12. What were the actions of the Jacobins (also called sans-culottes) upon seizing power of the National Convention from the Girondins? 13. Who was Robespierre and what was his role in the Committee of Public Safety? 14. What was the Reign of Terror?

**Part IV: The Reign of Terror & Aftermath**
15. How many people were arrested during the terror? 16. How many were killed? 17. What was the fate of Robespierre? 18. Describe government under the 1795 constitution in France. 19. What problems existed with the Directory?